Coronavirus latest: WHO warns countries are ‘driving blind’, as US deaths top 80,000

A top world health official warned on Monday that countries are essentially driving blind in reopening their economies without setting up strong contact tracing to beat back flare-ups of the coronavirus.The warning came as France and Belgium emerged from lockdowns, the Netherlands sent children back to school. A number of US states continued to lift their business restrictions as well, even as the nation’s death toll climbed past 80,000, by far the highest recorded by any country.Fears of…

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